The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-16

A dainty and delicate little chap who had
for some years displayed a fondness for
leading the german, and a prediction for
the society OF debutantes and unexception-
ably correct members of society, surprised
his friends in Fifth avenue generally one
day by parading along with man who
looked like an outcast and a murderer of
the Bill Sykes variety. The exquisite's
name was Tommy Wilton. He had fallen
INTO lot of money, distinguished himself
by lighting cigarettes with $40 bills, and
was for time quite the sensation of the
town. He was depended upon, therefore,
to produce more or less gossip. And his
debut in public with the heller had the de.
sired effect. The heller had some mirac-
ulous faculty of keeping his beard about
four days long at all times. Nobody could
ever tell when he shaved and it was a deep
mystery how he accomplished the feat of al
ways looking four days gone. His admira-
ton for his young master was expressed
frequently, and always in the hearing of
Mr.. Wilton. The plug would stand off, and
look at him fondly for an extended period,
then close his eye-he had only one-with a
species of canine alteration for a time
Then he would open it, look once more at
his owner, and say thickly:
Dye see that youngSter! Well, he don't
look very big nor very strong, but he's a
corber FIN way back. He's got heart in
ter him like an OK"
Mr. Milton did not return these compli-
ments. He seldom addressed his heller ex-
cept when they were both seated at table
in some sporting resort, and both very far
gone from the steps of propriety and prohi
bition. At such times Mr.. Wilton would
look at his pugilist with an expression of
pronounced dislike and then say in a de
liberate tone:
Mutton, YOU fatigue me extremely
The pugilist would look at him with an
air of pain and surprise There would be
another pause, and then the master would
wonder audibly why he was not dead,
struggle to his feet, and wander off home.
attended to the last by his devoted and
faithful slave.
Pony Moore, the London minstrel, was at
tended during his American visit last month
by his son-in-aw, Mitchell, and they made
a very stunning pair of celebrities as far as
appearance went. Mr.. Moore always walked
about a foot IN front of the pugiliSt, and
treated him with an air of quiet and lordly
disdain. This Mitchell accepted as the proper
thing as coming from a gentleman of Mr.
Moores social position to \ common pugil-
list Exactly what Moore's social position
was nobody ever quite knew. His gram
mar was what the boys call ''rocky" but his
diamonds were unexceptonable. He had
diamond buttons on his waistcoat, dia-
mondS on his fingers, and most glorious and
touching sight of all, a real watch and
chain. He snorted and fumed at all times
and all hours about his eminence, and when
it seemed to him that his word was being
doubted he invariably appealed to his heller
for confederation, and Mitchell gaveit with
whole-souled and deep-lunged fervency. So
that, Invested of all its Interior beauties and
embellishments, the practice of conveying
a pugilist around in public would seem to be
the result of an earnest desire on the part
of the men of wealth to have somebody al
ways at their elbow who will corroborate
their big tales and listen to their favorite
stories.
1t is significant fact however, that the
two most prominent and successful mana
gers of pugiists Messrs. Sheedy and Mad
den, have both been driven to the same con
clusion within the past month, and that is
that pugilists are not worth their salt out
side of the prize ring. Mr.. Sheedy's opn-
ion of John l.. Sullivan is breezy, accurate
and interesting, and it fully corresponds in
all essential points with that expressed by
Mr. Madden of his former protege Jake
Kilrain. Both Sheedy and Madden, by the
way, are going into the theatrical business.
Sullivans former manager returns to
America TO take out Roach, the dramatist,
in one of the latter's opening plays, and
Madden will, i'll all probability, manage a
burleSoue troupe. And, by the way, it is
a mistake to underrate the business sagacity
or mental capacity of either one of these
gentlemen. 1t would be difficult to find
shrewder pair of spectators in the country
than Pat Sheedy and Billy Madden, and
when one realizes that these two names are
more eminent in every household in Ameri-
ca than the names of any two Senators, one
realizes again that this is very, very large
country-and perhaps a somewhat peculiar
one. BLAKELY HALL.